Filter.



No. 780,607. PATENTED JAN. 24, 1905. 0. R. HARRIS.

FILTER.

APPLIOATIOIj FILED MAY 10. 1904.

V I I WITNESSES UNITED STATES Patented January 24, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN PERCOLATOR COMPANY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 780,607, datedJanuary 24, 1905. Application filed May 10, 1904. Serial No. 207,250.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs R.- HARRIS, a resident of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Filters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved filter, and more particularly to an improvement upon the construction of filter disclosed in Patent No. 700,916, granted to me May 27, 1902, the object of the invention being to provide improved means for catching the mud and heavier impurities of the water, relieving the filtering mechanism proper ofsuch excess, and which means can be readily removed, cleaned, and replaced without disturbing the filter proper.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described,

and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in longitudinal section, illustrating my improvements; and Fig. 2 is a view of the cleaner removed.

1 represents the receptacle for filtered water, preferably supported in a drip-pan 2 and provided with a spigot 3. The upper end of receptacle 1 is preferably contracted to receive the inclosing lower end of a filteringchamber 4, closed by any approved cover 5. The bottom 6 of filter-chamber 4 is provided with a central opening and a depending internally-screw-thrdaded ring 7 around the same to receive athreaded sleeve 8, having a conical screen 9 of fine wire-mesh in its bottom to preventthe escape of sand and animal charcoal or other like filtering material 10 and also, owing to the conical shape of the screen, prevent packing of the filtering material. Around the central opening in bottom 6 is an upwardly-projecting flange 11, forming a receptacle to receive a screen 12 and proper from the same, I provide cleaner 14:,-

which comprises a cylindrical ring flared at its lower end and adapted to inclose the flange 11 and rest on bottom 6. In this ring 14: wire screens 15 are provided, spaced apart and containing a filter of sand 16 between them, through which the water must pass and be partially cleaned before contact with asbestos disks 13. The cleaner 1& may be provided with suitable handles 17 if desired, as shown in Fig. 1, to facilitate its removal and can be readily removed from time to time and cleaned by inserting the same upside down beneath a faucet of running water and the mud and other matter washed from the sand. This cleaner adds to the life of the filter and is a valuable addition thereto.

Slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the.

precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a filter,the combination with a receptacle for containing filtered water and a receptacle for unfiltered water above the same, of a filter carried by said upper receptacle and through which the water must pass, and a cleaner located within and carried bysaid upper receptacle above the filter and removable bodily therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. In a filter the combination with a main receptacle for containing filtered water, of a receptacle-removably mounted upon said main receptable, a filter carried by and depending from said removable receptacle and depending into the main receptacle, and a cleaner within said removable receptacle and above the filter and removable bodily therefrom.

3. In afilter,the combination with a main receptacle open at its top, of a receptacle for unfiltered Water, seated upon said main receptacle and having an opening in its bottom, a filter within and depending below said opening, and a cleaner for covering the upper end of the filter and removable bodily therefrom.

4. In a filter,the combination with a receptacle for filtered water, and a receptacle for unfiltered water above the same, of a sleeve screwed into an opening in the bottom of said upper receptacle and containing filtering material, an upwardly-projecting flange around to this specification in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses.

CHAS. R. HARRIS Witnesses:

F. J. MOCLARY, M. L. CUsHINe. 

